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Chapter 23 - Gabriel, the Prince of the Chimera Ants

In an abandoned building far away from Yokai Academy, there stood a really big group of people, all of them were of the Outcast Ayashi, and they just sent a letter to Gabriel some minutes ago.

Midou: Heh, Now that we sent the letter, I wonder how much time he-

*Crash*

Something crashed from the roof of the building, and fell in the ground, raising a huge cloud of dust.

Midou: Wow… He's already here…

Everyone prepared themselves and surrounded the cloud of dust while transforming themselves in monsters, Midou included, his right arm increased in size, becoming bigger than the body itself, but he seemed unconcerned about the weight.

The cloud of dust disappeared, revealing Gabriel in his true form, looking down on them.

Moka: Gabriel!!

Midou: Oh? You came… I didn't expected for you to be so fast, but it doesn't matter, I will take you down and erase a problem for Anti-Thesis.

Gabriel seemed calm, but if one would look in his mind, they would piss themselves from fear.

If he was still sane enough to think about his situation, he would realize that his personality was slowly fusing to a certain person…

One random man was stupid enough to charge at him, he jumped in air and tried to attack him with a fist, suddenly his vision tilted towards left, around 90°. Gabriel twisted his head, killing him, and no one seen what happened.

...Slowly fusing with one of the most dreaded creatures ever born...

Everyone panicked from the sudden situation, until one let drop his weapon and ran away, suddenly, his vision turned black. His body fell in the ground, and Gabriel was over his just-crushed head, the victim didn't even realized that he died, just like the previous one.

...He already abandoned humanity by entering a monster's body…

Moka and the others could just watch him slowly massacring everyone in one hit, then they realized the magnitude of Youki he was carrying in his body, always increasing at every good meal, already able to match with the most dangerous creature in Japan.

...And now he is ripping off the thing he called 'Humanity' from his own soul…

Five more people rushed at him in despair, already knowing that their death is coming in less than 1 second, and before they made another step forward, all of them lost their heads, while Gabriel's tail was moving around, covered in blood and grey matter.

...He was trying to have an happy life with his new friends, and destiny would not let him, always sending some problems in their faces…

Right now Midou was enraged, seeing his own men dying like that, so he rushed at Gabriel and punched him with as much strength and willpower he could muster from his body, his hit seemed capable of shatter mountains, and injuring one of the hardest vampires.

...But destiny exceeded a limit, and breaking a wall that separated Gabriel's humanity and Meruem's soul…

Midou's giant fist connected with Gabriel, but to his shock, Gabriel didn't even moved a muscle, as if a mosquito just landed on his shoulder.

...His humanity is tainted and corrupt now, he was slowly become like his predecessor was before he died of poison, merciful to his friends, but the nightmare to his enemies, he will not leave a single one alive, even if they beg for mercy, unless they will be useful for him…

Gabriel's stinger easily pierced the giant hand and pinned Midou down, Gabriel turned his head, and looked at Midou with a blank gaze, his purple eyes piercing his willpower, making him tremble in pure terror.

...He is… Gabriel, the Prince of the Chimera Ants, successor of the King...

Moka realized that something was different with Gabriel, he would at least smile, even if covered in blood, or even talk, but he just looked at the Outcast Ayashi and not even glancing at her.

She started to have visions, the vision of the predecessors life, how he was born from a human sized ant, ripping the womb apart and almost killed her.

How he killed a penguin-like Chimera Ant because he was ignored, and the penguin was walking towards the dying Queen Ant

How he killed an old turtle-like Chimera Ant just because he tried to clean his tail from blood, which was ordered to another Chimera Ant.

How he eaten the penguin-like Chimera Ant in front of his servants.

Moka, and Inner Moka, who had the same visions, were terrified from what Gabriel did when he was born, not knowing that it was entirely another person, their opinion of Gabriel lowered immediately, and turned in fear.

Suddenly, other visions started, this time it was a guy that looked like Gabriel, but was taller, just over Tsukune's height for around 1 inch, and was walking with some humans like they were great friends, they seemed to love an happy life, and Gabriel had a completely different behavior than in the previous vision.

Then it became night, and Gabriel was walking, every step was slower, until he fell in the ground, and died from poison, worrying both Moka and Inner Moka.

The vision changed again, and this time it was a forest, there was Gabriel in his true form, even if he was still not in Meruem's body, he walked just like Gabriel did in his human form before he fell in the ground, every step was getting slower.

Behind him there was a big pool of blood, coming from the monsters he killed before to not make Gabriel hungry when he possess the body.

Then he started to use a paper and a pen he found in the monster's clothes, and started to write something they couldn't read, but before he could finish, he died of poison, but something stood out more than the letter itself, it was a particular name, Meruem.

Moka didn't knew what it meant, and was able to read some words after it. 'The King of the Chi…' she didn't need much to think about it that she was able to conclude that there should be written 'King of the Chimera Ants'.

But this made Moka curious, Gabriel himself said that he was the only King ever born in the Chimera Ants' species, and there suddenly was another one called Meruem, so she decided to ask Gabriel later.

While she and Inner Moka were thinking they didn't realized yet that Gabriel was in front of them, back in his human form, and just broke the chains that were binding Moka, when Moka couldn't feel the bindings anymore, she woke up from her thoughts and looked up in Gabriel's face.

Moka wanted to talk a bit, but was interrupted when Gabriel suddenly hugged her without saying a word, Moka felt only honesty coming from Gabriel's affection, and it completely erased her bad opinion of him when she watched the first visions, but her inner self didn't forgot it, and planned to ask him later.

It seems that Moka forgot about Midou, which was a corpse pierced with his own giant hand, right at the chest.

Far away from there, there was a bus, and a man in uniform was smoking a cigarette, it was the bus driver, and looked in the sky.

Bus Driver: What will you do… Will you become the one who will give mercy? Or will you become the one who will devour?